Archive for the 'Costa Rica News' Category

Cell Phone Test to Cut Service

Friday, February 29th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
Communications between land lines and cellular phones will be broken for a phone company (ICE) test from midnight Saturday night (March 1) to 6 a.m Sunday morning for a phone company (ICE) test, reported The Tico Times Online. The temporary interruption of service is due to a test […]

Business Owners Optimistic

Friday, February 29th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
Despite the economic woes of Costa Rica’s biggest export market and main source of tourism (the United States), 400 local business owners overwhelmingly predicted this country’s economic growth will continue or even improve this year. The poll was conducted by the Union of Private Sector Chambers and Associations […]

Author Mavis Biesanz Dies at 88

Friday, February 29th, 2008

By Rod Hughes
Mavis Biesanz, non-fiction author and a longtime resident of Costa Rica, died last week at CIMA Hospital in Escazú last week of an acute lung infection at the age of 88. She is best known for the definitive book on Costa Rican culture, ¨The Ticos: Culture and Social […]